Castleberry, Brian <br/><br/>
Nine shiny objects   a novel  
Brian Castleberry 
 - First edition 
 - New York, NY  Custom House  2020 
 - 319 pages   24 cm 
<br/><br/> "A stunning literary saga in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the unexpectedly and eerily intersecting lives of a lineage of American dreamers"--  June 26, 1947. Headlines across America report the sighting of nine pulsating lights flying over the Cascade Mountains at speeds surpassing any aircraft. In Chicago Oliver Danville, a failed actor now a pool hustler, hitchhikes west in a fever-dream quest for a possible sign from above. A chance encounter with Saul Penrod, an Idaho farmer, sets in motion the birth of 'the Seekers'-- a collective of outcasts, interlopers, and idealists devoted to creating a society where divisions of race, ethnicity, and sexuality are a thing of the past. The group settle in the suburbs of Long Island; their purpose is revealed-- and a horrific crime occurs. In the decades that follow, the perpetrators, survivors, and their children will be forced to face the consequences of what happened: a clash between those who seek inspiration from spacious skies, and others who relish the underworld. -- adapted from jacket 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780062984395 006298439X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019044005 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Unidentified flying objects--Sightings and encounters--Fiction<br/>Utopias--Fiction<br/>Fiction / Literary<br/>Fiction / Political<br/>Fiction / Historical / General<br/>Unidentified flying objects--Sightings and encounters
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Long Island (N.Y.)--Fiction.<br/>New York (State)--Long Island
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3603.A883  / N56 2020 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Cas   2